You can build the cleanest ratings view in the world and your hiring manager will still ask for it in a spreadsheet. This is not obstinacy — a spreadsheet is where they already do their comparing, filtering and arguing.
Three ways out, in order of effort
Push ratings to Google Sheets. One action, and the results land in a sheet you can share. Best when someone wants the whole picture and wants to sort it themselves.
Download a CSV. Calls, ratings, wallet transactions — all exportable. Best for one-off analysis and for anything going into another system.
Give them a viewer seat. The one people skip, and often the right answer. A viewer reads calls, transcripts and ratings but changes nothing. If the same person asks for an export every few days, they do not want a file — they want access, and you have become a reporting service.
Export fewer columns than you have
The instinct is to include everything. The result is forty columns nobody reads and the three that matter buried in the middle.
A useful hiring export is about eight: name, phone, overall score, the two or three scores that actually differentiate, notice period, location, and the one-line summary. The transcript is not a spreadsheet column — link to it.
Watch the size
Exports are bounded — a filtered export tells you when more rows matched than were included. If you see that note, narrow the filter rather than assuming you have everything. Handing a manager a file you believe is complete and is not is worse than handing them nothing.
The CSV trap
Spreadsheet software will happily interpret a leading + in a phone number as a formula, and free text starting with certain characters as something executable. Exports here escape those cells deliberately, which is why an occasional value looks slightly odd when you inspect it — that is the protection working. Do not strip it before sending the file on.
The habit worth building
Export at the end of a batch, not continuously. A stream of partial spreadsheets creates version confusion — three files, all called "candidates", all different. One file per batch, named for the batch, dated.
